Conclusions: Our review revealed that (i) the definition of "elderly" varied from trial to trial, and elderly patients were simply defined using calender age in the clinical trials; (ii) the quality of elderly-specific trials were generally poor, mainly because of their small sample size.
Ideally, standard treatment of AGC in elderly patients should not be based solely on retrospective subset analyses of prospective trials, and elderly specific trials are needed to define the optimal treatment for these patients (Perrone et al, 2002; Jatoi et al, 2005).
This aspect was valuable for the use of interpreters in the area of multilingual elderly healthcare with its composition of elderly persons' specific needs, illnesses and treatment.
7 11 Other studies deal with groups of elderly people with specific diseases, such as mental illnesses or dementia.
The strength of this present study was a considerable large group of elderly patients with specific diseases who underwent CGA in the geriatric ward.
The determinant analysis showed that it was necessary to train knowledge and skills relating to the target population of elderly people because specific skills are required when addressing the problems faced by older people.
Resilience has been studied in samples of elderly persons with specific war-time histories such as veterans but to our knowledge, not in more general samples of WWII survivors who experienced various kinds of trauma during their wartime-childhood and adolescence.
A combination was sometimes made of elderly patients and a specific medical condition.
The results generated a methodological approach to emphasize the most important comfort, fit and design constructive characteristics of footwear items that need to be customized, in order to meet the specific needs of elderly people.
Again, there was no specific analysis of elderly patients.
T The value of specific studies of elderly subjects has been clearly demonstrated [ 4].
